Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Phil Dowe, Jackson/Pargetter/Prior and Goodman,N/Quine,W

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
17619 We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour
7435 Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
4787 Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos]
14586 Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
4788 Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos]